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Camilla Sharman

You’re painting your fence all wrong: Expert reveals the $0.50 kitchen item that works far better

A painter painting wooden fence.

With the clocks about to change and the longer daylight hours that ensue, it’s time to get outside and make a start on refreshing your yard. Apart from power washing your pathways, pruning trees, and sowing seeds in March, you’ll probably want to give your fence(s) a new coat of paint.

After months of wind, frost, rain and snow, your fence can appear faded, patchy and tired. And while most of us instinctively reach for a traditional fence brush to sort it out, one DIY expert says it could be the one thing slowing you down.

According to Omar Stoltzfus, a home improvement expert at Premier Timber Frame Builders, the humble paintbrush could be why so many people dread fence painting in the first place.

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